In case no one's mentioned them, I really enjoyed
Mark Saltzman's Game Design: Secrets of the Sages. May be a bit dated (1999), but good reading on the genre.
I understand he had a new one out in 2003 called Masters of the Game - don't know what it's like though.
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Quite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't air at a premium in space?
Have we learnt nothing from Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers?
In case no one's mentioned them, I really enjoyed Mark Saltzman's Game Design: Secrets of the Sages. May be a bit dated (1999), but good reading on the genre. I understand he had a new one out in 2003 called Masters of the Game - don't know what it's like though.